blue-collar

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In January, he published a profile of a 23-year-old electrician who skipped college to be a part of “Gen Z’s blue-collar revolution.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The kind of job insecurity that once seemed the province of hourly, blue-collar jobs haunts white-collar professions these days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

The firm sends thousands of blue-collar workers overseas each year in search of regular, better paid work.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

My entire career, I felt like a blue-collar working-class actor trying to be in the best movies and do the best work I possibly can.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

He had come to Odessa from Dallas twenty-seven years before, so he had been in the town long enough to know exactly what it was like, tight-clenched, blue-collar, conservative.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger